Fairway Solitaire Cheats
I’ve been getting lots of emails about how to cheat on Fairway Solitaire because some of the end courses are really tough. There are no in-game cheats at all I’m afraid - they were all removed in the final version. However, it is possible to modify one of the data files to make the tough courses easier as follows (Windows XP):
- Go to your C Drive via My Computer
- Go to Program Files\Fairway Solitaire
- Go into Data\Levels
- Make a backup copy of CourseList.csv somewhere safe.
- Right Click CourseList.csv and click Open with WordPad or NotePad (if you are using Windows Vista you need to open it with Adminstrator privileges)
- Find the course AFTER the one you are stuck on
- If you are modifying Joe’s Gas and Golf - find where it says SCORE,-1 and change -1 to something much easier like 20
- If you are modifying Mystery Madness - find where it says TOKENS,25000 and change 25000 to something much easier like 1000
- Save the file.
- Run the game and check the course goal, it should have changed.
- Tada!
The courses mentioned in the cheats are only really hard in V1.01 of the game. They are easier in V1.02 and higher. Please note that it is not possible to cheat on the last course: The Baron. Also there are no cheats for the Mac version.
Hope this helps you out, and thanks for playing the game so far!
January 27th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Thanks for the tips. Do you mind if we post your cheats on casualgameguides if we link to your blog?
January 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am
You are welcome Jason. I spoke to BFG and they weren’t ultra keen on the cheats being spread as they prefer “walkthroughs” rather than all our cheats like this. So if you can please NOT post them (but by all means link to this blog), that would be great thx.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:07 am
Hello.
You can cheat on the last course, just go to the map courses and open the baron, the 1ste numbers you see is the amount of strikes you needed to play par, just ad something like 27 more so 60 becomes 87 for instance.
And then go to the map holes en open one by one the the holes from baron 1/9 and change the figure below hole, for instance make 5 an 8, just ad 3 to all holes so you became 27 in total. This will make it a lot easier to win the game.
Just look out you don’t ad to much because otherwise the game crashes, but you are still able to start where you crashed though.
I think the crash is because when you overad like a hole with par 4 you make a par 12 and you manage to complete the hole in 5 then he does not have the graphics for that because i think you can not do better the triple eagles, and 1 par 5 at a course that is par 12 is much more then triple eagle.
You can change the pars on every hole this way.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:44 am
Wow good tip! I hadn’t even thought of that (it’s been so long since I programmed the reading of those files). Yeah basically the game has graphics for 1 to 4 under par (Birdie, Eagle, Double Eagle, Triple Eagle) and graphics for Perfect (can be 3,4, or 5 under par depending on the hole). So if you score 5 or more under par and it’s NOT perfect, the game will crash. For example you should be able to score 12 under par, providing it’s Perfect, but anything from 5 to 11 under par will be a crash.
Anyway, The Baron is not too hard, it can be done with the right clubs and some careful play.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 am
One thing i don’t understand, in the map holes are only the holes for about 30 courses a lot of the courses are not situated in that map, so i am curious to know where the data is for the missing courses.
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 am
Each course file contains a list of hole files that are used for the course. Sometimes the names are not the same and some are reused.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I recently bought this game through Big Fish. The version is 1.1. How do I update it to 1.2 without losing my progress? Thanks in advance.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Hi Chris. Big Fish Games don’t have 1.2 online yet, although I think it will be happening soon. The three courses that were made easier were:
Cherry Lakes
Joe’s Gas ‘n’ Golf
Mystery Madness
If you get stuck on one of those before they release a V1.2 update (I’ll post news about it in this thread), then email me and I’ll send you a new data file or just try the cheat mentioned above.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I’m curious about how to win the Scoring Cup Trophy. It’s supposed to be awarded for “the first time you score 9 or lower on a course”. I’ve scored as low as -30 but haven’t won the trophy yet.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Ah yes, to win the scoring cup your total score for the course needs to be 9 or lower, not your To Par. So that means you only left 9 or less cards on all the holes. I’d have thought that -30 would be enough to do it on some courses though…Anyway, keep an eye on your Score not To Par (on the Score Card) to see if you are close to winning this trophy.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Love this game … very addictive! I won my Scoring Cup [I scored exactly 9 and was -28] … Thanks for your help.
One more question ….
I noticed that my name seems to have disappeared from the top scores list for all the courses except for the very last course I played. All the other top scores belong to phoney names [?] and they all have the same date and time stamp. I was hoping to go replay some courses and try to beat a few of my previous scores.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Great, glad you won the scoring cup!
That’s very strange about the top scores list. That scores list is created once, when you first run the game (what date is on your list?) and then gradually your scores get added into it. It shouldn’t get refilled with the names of BFG staff at all. Did anything unusual happen to your system or the game (did you reinstall it)? Unfortunately they may be lost now, but I don’t know why.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I figured it out … I play on 2 computers and transferred my saved files to another PC (which worked fine), but failed to copy the best.dat file. All my data shows up now.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Cool, glad you figured it out and it wasn’t a bug!
April 16th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Hello. I wanted to start all over again because i made some adjustments on the courses so i uninstalled the game en installed it again, the only thing is that all my aliasses i used are still visible in the scorecards from the courses so to beat those scores is almost impossible if i play with the standard configuration. Is this somewehere stored on the pc and did not remove when i uninstall the game ?
Thanks in advance.
greetings
April 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hi Leendert, (sorry for the delay in replying, I’ve been away for a week). If you are using XP, go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Grey Alien Games\Fairway Solitaire\ and delete best.dat or if you are using Vista go to C:\ProgramData\Grey Alien Games\Fairway Solitaire\ and delete best.dat
This should remove the best scores and the game will reset them to “random” ones.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Thanks for your reply, that solved the problem.